Does you S.O. asks you this question?

[Jim Malone]

I bought an Otter Anker knife yesterday. Showed it to my wife.
She asked "what are you going to do with it?"
Didn't know what to say. She knows i have 70+ Spyderco knives.
Does your S.O. asks you this same question and what do you say to him/her?
I said "cut stuff". Then she asks me why it has an anker on it? You don't have a boat!
It was a genuine question of interest but didn't quit knew what to say.
Maybe she is just weird and i should accept she asks weird questions.

[Evil D]

Some variation of the same question, or "don't you have enough?". I tell her I need this knife to open the next knife box.

[attila]

Wife has asked me that several times at least.

Some variation of the same question, or "don't you have enough?". I tell her I need this knife to open the next knife box.

Ooo! I like that! She’ll roll her eyes for sure!

[ladybug93]

Some variation of the same question, or "don't you have enough?". I tell her I need this knife to open the next knife box.

best answer. definitely stealing this one.

[TkoK83Spy]

My wife has stopped asking. Plus, she knows I'm trying to downsize as I'm slowly entering my new role at work and won't need knives nearly as often. These days if I buy one, I sell another. Pretty decent trade off and doesn't get her in a tizzy...THAT'S the real win here!

[ladybug93]

i usually answer these questions as if she is actually interested. i give all the significance of the history of the blade shape or design evolution and talk about the different uses and how i plan to use it and why this particular design is different from everything else i have and what attracted me to it in the first place... i don't usually get that far before being cut off because the question wasn't sincere.

[soulspy]

I usually just point to her rack of earrings and tell her it's the same thing. I have to match my outfits and knives and some of them just look pretty

[bearfacedkiller]

My wife couldn’t care less about knives or how many I buy. She expects me to keep the kitchen knives sharp but that is as far as her interest goes. We never talk about them.

She also doesn’t care about me spending money as long as all the bills are getting paid. We aren’t rich but we are comfortable and we live a pretty simple life. We almost never even talk about money which I am grateful for.

[Manixguy@1994]

My CEO has some expensive hobbies so we get along just fine ! Dan

[RustyIron]

I bought an Otter Anker knife yesterday. Showed it to my wife.
She asked "what are you going to do with it?"
Didn't know what to say.

Tell her the truth. Tell her you're going to open the mail, cut steak, and trim bushes. Explain why the full flat grind is beneficial, and how the K390 steel is exciting because of it's vanadium content, but how in the long ago, it was difficult to produce high-vanadium steel what was sufficiently durable. Then go into the partial metallurgy process, how the molten metal is sprayed as it solidifies, and how the resulting powder is compressed into a superior material. Then go into the specific advantages to sharpening such a material, and how you're first going to sharpen it one way, and then sharpen it another way, and compare the performance. You can then get into the aesthetics of the knife, and how the color matches your socks and your speedos.

I suspect that long before you get to the end of your explanation, your wife's eyes will glaze over, and she'll say, "That's nice, honey. You have fun with your new knife."

Seriously, it's nice that she's polite enough to engage you in conversation about something you like, but probably doesn't interest her in the least.

[Bolster]

i usually answer these questions as if she is actually interested. i give all the significance of the history of the blade shape or design evolution and talk about the different uses and how i plan to use it and why this particular design is different from everything else i have and what attracted me to it in the first place... i don't usually get that far before being cut off because the question wasn't sincere.

Explain why the full flat grind is beneficial, and how the K390 steel is exciting because of it's vanadium content, but how in the long ago, it was difficult to produce high-vanadium steel what was sufficiently durable. Then go into the partial metallurgy process, how the molten metal is sprayed as it solidifies, and how the resulting powder is compressed into a superior material. Then go into the specific advantages to sharpening such a material, and how you're first going to sharpen it one way, and then sharpen it another way, and compare the performance....

LOL! That's my approach too! Get real enthusiastic with a "I'm glad you asked" attitude, and before long she's trying to change the subject. Better her than me, eh? NEVER overlook the power of an informed and lengthy lecture to make people wish they'd never brought up the subject in the first place.

[cjk]

Initially I thought this was a thread to stay out of. Now I'm taking notes.

[CDEP]

I'm lucky, as my SO is a badass and has her own knives. She hasn't yet been won over by the form/function beauty of the Spydie aesthetic, but I'll get her there. I do catch her eyeing my Viele Phoenix Sprint on occasion.

I bought her a pink G-10 Para3, but she laughed at me and said I should keep it because it looked better on me...

Like I said, she's a badass.

[Jim Malone]

She has 4 pink Spyderco's she uses and (sometimes) carries in her purse. She knows i carry 24/07 so she knows she always has a knife nearby.

I'll try the information overload. I listen to her a lot as well. She is able to talk for 4 hours about her 8 hour workday at the O.R. !

[aicolainen]

Then she asks me why it has an anker on it? You don't have a boat!

“…well, honey, actually there’s another thing I need to tell you about..”


That should take her attention off the knives for a while

[fanglekai]

Nope she only asked me a couple times then stopped. She has her own hobbies so it all works out.

[JBoone]

We have a don’t ask don’t tell policy. I ship mine to work and she buys what she wants with her own money without me questioning her purchases. As long as bills are paid and saving money nothing wrong with some discretionary spending.

[Mtnsteve]

I read this as Sheriff’s Office…

I clearly need more sleep and less coffee.

[Evil D]

Knives are a relatively inexpensive hobby until you start collecting customs. It gets a lot worse when you have to explain away one of these...






Then you're spending "Nirvana money" on every little supporting bit here and there that you need to finish it and get it in the car.

[Fireman]

Tell her you need a new knife to open every present you get her.